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Andrea A. diSessa
A study of a group of elementary school students learning to control a computer-implemented Newtonian object reveals a surprisingly uniform and detailed collection of strategies, at the care of which is a robust "Aristotelian" expectation that things should move in the direction they are last pushed. A protocol of an undergraduate dealing with the same situation shows a large overlap with the set of strategies used by the elementary school children and thus a marked lack of influence of classroom physics training on this student's naive physics. The data from these two studies are pooled and elaborated into a "genetic task analysis" of how one might come to understand Newtonian dynamics as a more or less natural evolution from the naive state.
Cognitive Science: Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 37-75
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<a href="https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=2317">diSessa, Andrea. "Unlearning Aristotelian physics: a study of knowledge-based learning." Cogn. Sci. 6, no. 1, (January 1, 1982): 37-75.</a>
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A. diSessa, Unlearning Aristotelian physics: a study of knowledge-based learning, Cogn. Sci. 6 (1), 37 (1982), <https://doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog0601_2>.
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diSessa, A. (1982, January 1). Unlearning Aristotelian physics: a study of knowledge-based learning. Cogn. Sci., 6(1), 37-75. Retrieved July 12, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog0601_2
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diSessa, Andrea. "Unlearning Aristotelian physics: a study of knowledge-based learning." Cogn. Sci. 6, no. 1, (January 1, 1982): 37-75, https://doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog0601_2 (accessed 12 July 2025).
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diSessa, Andrea. "Unlearning Aristotelian physics: a study of knowledge-based learning." Cogn. Sci. 6.1 (1982): 37-75. 12 July 2025 <https://doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog0601_2>.
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